NEW DELHI: A model was reportedly held hostage digitally by cybercriminals for two hours and lost Rs 99,000, police revealed on Wednesday.Shivankita Dixit, who claims herself as a former Femina Miss India, West Bengal 2017, reported the incident to authorities. Dixit received a WhatsApp call on Tuesday from individuals claiming to be CBI officers, assistant…
77-yr-old Mumbai woman kept under ‘digital arrest’ for a month. The complainant, a homemaker, lives with her retired husband (75) in the city while her two children are abroad. MUMBAI: In perhaps the longest ‘digital detention’ in the city by cyber fraudsters posing as law enforcers, a 77-year-old south Mumbai woman was kept under ‘digital…
Initial Contact: Scammers first send an SMS, email, or a WhatsApp text. The message states that the recipient’s name or phone number is linked to criminal acts like pornography, drug peddling or money laundering. They are instructed to call a specific number to avoid ‘digital arrest‘.Impersonation via video calls: Once the victim responds, scammers initiate…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned the nation about the rise in digital arrest scams during his recent Mann ki Baat address. In a shocking revelation, Indians lost Rs 120.3 crore in the digital arrest fraud during the first quarter of 2024. According to the National Cybercrime Reporting Portal (NCRP) data, around 7.4 lakh cybercrime complaints…
NEW DELHI: NIA on Thursday filed a chargesheeted five accused in Lao PDR cyber fraud and human trafficking racket run by a Delhi-based consultancy firm.The accused – identified as Manjoor Alam alias Guddu, Sahil, Ashish alias Akhil, Pawan Yadav alias Afzal alias Afroz, along with key conspirator Kamran Haider alias Zaidi – were involved in…
Fraud calls are becoming a widespread problem, exploiting unsuspecting individuals through deception and manipulation. While the tactic is generally used to ‘extort’ money, one such call led to the death of a government school teacher in Agra. According to a report, a teacher died due to cardiac arrest that was reportedly triggered by a fraud…
Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Jio has issued a warning for its customers. The telecom service provider has issued a warning about scammers’ tactics and how they target unsuspecting users for cyber fraud. “For us at Jio, your security is always of utmost importance. Recently, we have observed cases of cyber fraud where scammers pose as representatives…
In yet another shocking incident of cyber fraud, a 77-year-old woman from Bengaluru has fallen victim to a scam, losing a staggering amount of Rs 1.2 crore. According to an online report, the elderly woman was duped by unknown fraudsters who managed to gain her trust and convince her to transfer the hefty sum.What exactly…
MUMBAI: Observing that a case before it was an example of how innocent persons are becoming victims of cyber fraud, Bombay HC on Thursday relied on a July 2017 RBI circular and directed Bank of Baroda to return to a company Rs 76 lakh it had lost to an online fraud. The division bench of…
MUMBAI: Observing that a case before it was an example of how innocent persons are becoming victims of cyber fraud, Bombay HC on Thursday relied on a July 2017 RBI circular and directed Bank of Baroda to return to a company Rs 76 lakh it had lost to an online fraud. The division bench of…
